Gender Trends in Authorship in Psychiatry Journals From 2008 to 2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women are currently underrepresented in academic psychiatry. As publication activity reflects both leadership and participation in academia, we examined temporal trends in women's authorship by conducting a large-scale bibliometric study of psychiatry journals.

Methods

We examined changes in proportions of women in the first, last, and overall authorship positions over time; relationship to journal impact factor and editorial board makeup; and rates of transition to senior author status using original research articles published in the 24 highest-impact psychiatry journals between January 2008 and May 2018.

Results

In 30,934 articles, women represented 40.0% of all authors in 2008 and 44.8% in 2018, with a significant increase in the percentage of women as

SUBMITTER: Hart KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6699930 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature